Lazarus Archive · LZ-29399

StrataSnap

Strata Media, 1993–2002. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 41 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 2002.

Provenance

Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. Some embedded media from third-party sites had already gone when the capture was made. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
132470c6a5f9fb56cb6b29249ecae5a220eb56382feda17a13d278d7ddb8dcef
Last verified
Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-WEB1-4 · lz-browser core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
None. Captured over the network.

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away under the work’s license.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-WEB1-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the web.

Cite as: Strata Media, StrataSnap (1993–2002). Lazarus Archive, LZ-29399.

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